Now! Then! Source: Hildyard, The Antiquities of York City, and the Civil Government Thereof: With a List of All the Mayors and Bayliffs, Lord Mayors and Sheriffs, from the Time of King Edward the First, to This Present Year, 1719. Collected from the Papers of Christopher Hildyard, Esq., With Notes and Observations (1719)

Christopher Hildyard. 1719. The Antiquities of York City, and the Civil Government Thereof. Ed. James Torr. York: G. White for Francis Hildyard.

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Now! Then! is an almanac portraying Yorkshire on this day. Now! lists modern happenings in the heavens and on earth. Then! consists roughly of 931 historical serendipities (749K words) from the last 2,000 years, quoted from 1,575 more-or-less contemporary accounts, and dealing with 6,676 subjects, such as (automated list!) Leeds, York, West Riding of Yorkshire, Church of England, London, Sheffield, Bradford, poetry, Horse, Kingston upon Hull ... Leeds’s Singing Organ-Grinder has been compiling and coding Now! Then! The Yorkshire Almanac at bedtime to educate himself about his new home since moving from Hackney to Headingley in April 2021. It will soon be available in printed and e-book editions. You can also book a performance with barrel organ of The Yorkshire Almanac Songbook.

Toutes ces choses sont passées/ Comme l'ombre et comme le vent: se non è vero, è ben trovato.

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